Sentence examples for obtain possession from inspiring English sources

At the sound of a starter pistol, the teams try to obtain possession.

Swift has been forced to pay charges to Stock Yards to obtain possession of livestock unloaded at the yards.

This was a summary procedure brought by a landlord 1 to obtain possession from his tenants for nonpayment of rent.

They are deemed to have custody if they hold the assets or have the ability to obtain possession of the assets.

You must first serve your tenant a 'notice of intention to seek possession' to inform them that if they do not leave, you plan to go to court to obtain possession of the property.

Under an AT, to obtain possession a landlord must show that the tenant was seriously at fault, whereas under an AST, the landlord need only give the tenant two months' notice.

In 277, between the periods of occupation by Pyrrhus, the Romans obtained possession of the city.

As soon as Williams had obtained possession of [it], he thrust it forcibly into the opening of his throat, inflicting a wound, which was attended with fatal consequences".

The insurgents reoccupied Campania, and with the defeat of Gaius Thoranius, the quaestor of Varinius, they obtained possession of nearly the whole of southern Italy.

At that point, the government's papers assert somewhat mysteriously, "third parties wrongfully obtained possession of the 5.03-carat diamond ring, and wrongfully transferred possession of the ring to others".

One had done, and the other had advised the doing, that which the state court had not consented to, and it was after it had signified its disapproval that the district court receiver obtained possession without such consent.